Robotically assisted division of a vascular ring in children

Successful robotic-assisted division of symptomatic vascular ring.

A 61-year-old woman presented with the primary complaints of chest heaviness and dysphagia over the past 10 years. Extensive work-up included a computerized tomographic angiography that revealed a right aortic arch with an aberrant left subclavian artery with a vascular ring completed by the fibrotic ligamentum arteriosum connecting the proximal aberrant left subclavian artery to the left pulmo...

Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Division of Vascular Rings

This study reports our early experience with thoracoscopic division of vascular rings. Three patients were reviewed; their ages at surgery were 25 months, 4 years, and 57 years. All patients were suffering from complete vascular rings involving combinations of the right aortic arch, left ligamentum arteriosum, Kommerell's diverticulum, and retroesophageal left subclavian artery. The median surg...

Robotically assisted laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a pilot study.

HYPOTHESIS Since the advent of laparoscopic surgery in 1987 and the introduction of robotics into medicine in 1991, medical technology has advanced to robotic applications in performing surgery. In our study, we investigated the feasibility of performing simple laparoscopic maneuvers and laparoscopic cholecystectomy using a robotic surgical system. DESIGN The study used a ZEUS robotic system ...

Robotically Assisted Endoscopic Ovarian Transposition

BACKGROUND Ovarian transposition is the anatomical relocation of the ovaries from the pelvis to the abdomen. Transposition is beneficial in women who are to undergo pelvic radiation, because it allows maintenance of ovarian function and preservation of assisted reproductive capacity. METHODS The da Vinci surgical system (Intuitive Surgical, Mountainview, CA, USA) was used to perform an endosc...

Robotically assisted repair of sinus venosus defect.